☑️ General guidelines

• We consider the whole process as a two-way conversation. We’re interviewing you, but you’re also interviewing us as a company, as a team, and as individuals. You’ll have plenty of time to ask as many questions as you want at each stage of the interview process.
• We try very hard to ask questions that are relevant to the role you’re applying for. We don’t ask tricky or curveball questions. Don’t expect “how many golf balls can you fit in a bus?” or “what’s the output of +[] == +![] in JavaScript?” types of questions, because we don’t think they add any value.
• Even though we call these “interviews”, we see them more like conversations. We want you to feel as comfortable and relaxed as possible. Even if we’re not a good fit now, hopefully, we can all learn something new and enjoy the process, and perhaps in the future, we can work together.
• Following on the item above, if you require any of our interview stages to be adjusted because of a disability/health condition or any other reason, please, let us know and we’ll do our very best to make the necessary accommodations. If you’re comfortable and relaxed, you’ll do better at the interview. ☺️
• We understand people have other jobs, and most importantly, life and family outside work, so we always try our very best to be flexible with interview times.
• We don’t ghost people and we always provide feedback after each stage, no matter if we decide to put you forward to the next interview or not. If, for some reason, we haven’t gotten back to you after one of the stages, please, get in touch with your point of contact at Orkestro. Note: please keep in mind we won’t be able to provide personalised feedback if we decide not to progress from the CV review to the first stage.
• We don’t put through candidates that are “maybes” — and we encourage you to do the same from your side. Mis-hires can be incredibly expensive for a company and also the candidate, so we make sure we make offers when we’re fully convinced the candidate is the right person for us.
• Our goal is to go through the whole interview process as quickly as possible, as long as this works for you as well. We don’t see any point in delaying stages or decisions.
• Please keep in mind that there is no connection between the exact length of your interview at each stage and your performance. An interview scheduled for 60 minutes may take 70 minutes or it could end in 40 minutes, but this does not indicate that the interview went better or worse if it deviated from the allocated time.

1️⃣ First stage: intro video call with our Hiring Manager

Duration: ~45 mins.

Main objectives:

• Give you all the information that you need about Orkestro, the role, salary, perks, culture and the rest of the interview process.
• Ensure that what we’re looking for nicely aligns with your objectives, career goals, experience and expectations.

2️⃣ Second stage: architecture and design session with our CTO and with a Senior Engineer

Duration: ~60 mins.

Main objectives:

• Meet Sacha Zvetelman, our CTO.
• Assess some of your technical skills and expertise: to do this we’ll ask you some technical questions and we’ll do a system design and architecture exercise together (don’t worry, you don’t have to prepare anything for this).